Penn State University Faculty Vote to Ban “Male-Centric” Terms Like “Freshman” and “Senior”
The faculty senate at Penn State University voted to ban “male-centric” terms like “freshman” and “senior,” and replace them with “1st-year” and “4th-year,” in a effort to be more “inclusive.”
The Penn State faculty claims that the school, “has grown out of a typically male-centered world, as such, many terms in our lexicon carry a strong, male-centric, binary character to them.”
The faculty senate passed legislation that would remove sex from language and pronouns when referring to students, or anyone else the college’s property.
“Terms such as ‘freshmen’ are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as ‘upperclassmen’ can be interpreted as both sexist and classist,” read the legislation.
The school’s legislation is titled the, “Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions.”
“Terms such as ‘junior’ and ‘senior’ are parallel to western male father-son naming conventions, and much of our written documentation uses he/she pronouns,” the controversial Penn State legislation stated.
The far-left delusional faculty senate also suggests replacing “underclassmen” with “lower division,” and replacing “upperclassmen” with “upper division.”
Penn State is not the only university where gendered language is under attack or being altered on campus.
Students at the University of Virginia voted with 89% favorability in support of banning gender pronouns from the school’s documents.
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